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...vacuum there will be. After years of autocracy, the Dominican Republic was a stunned place. Thousands of Dominicans, many of them wailing hysterically, tried to jam into the tiny crypt of the church in San Cristóbal, where Trujillo's closed coffin was laid to rest. Ramfis ordered them out, then, with eyes blazing, vowed at his father's tomb to kill every one of the opposition. After the funeral, 1,000 suspected opponents of the regime were rounded up. Diaz' son was reported killed, and his wife held for torture; the government announced the death...
...will have two unusual chapels: the Chapel of Unity, designed for use by all denominations of Protestants, and the Guild Chapel (the Chapel of Christ the Servant), which will be dedicated to industry, trade unions, guilds and management associations. Already in use is a small Lady chapel in the crypt, its altar splendid with a bronze and glass cross by Sculptor Geoffrey Clarke, who was obviously inspired by the charred timber cross still standing in the ruins. In the crypt each day, lunch-hour services are held for a congregation of 400 to 500. The congregation plays an important part...
...Stuart Barton Babbage, Anglican Dean of 70-year-old St. Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia, has his own formula for filling the tent. He plastered the crypt of the cathedral with gaudy record jackets, set candles in wine bottles on checkered tableclothes, and ran an ad in the newspapers: ANY CRAZY CAT IS WELCOME TO CREEP DOWN TO OUR CRYPT FOR COFFEE AND CRUMPETS. Instead of the 100-odd he expected the first Sunday night, more than 500 youngsters crushed in at 15? a head. Dean Babbage was happily laying plans last week for an espresso machine...
Rings & Reminders. Some of the art is newly excavated-and was barely saved from vandals. Two years ago, the government learned that a gang of thieves had been looting a 15th century crypt at the former Thailand capital of Ayudhya. The thieves had already melted down about 40% of the gold objects, but the government was able to rescue hundreds of rings, jeweled swords, wrist bands, fragile animal motifs of hammered gold. Experts guess that there may be scores more of such crypt treasures across the nation: only four months ago, a cache of 16th and 17th century crystal...
...oldest continuing Shakespeare stage, but also a shijne and an industry. A quarter-million tourists a year, 25,000 from the U.S., pour into this medieval town in the green-girt Cotswolds to poke curiously through Anne Hathaway's neighboring cottage and peer reverently at Shakespeare's crypt in Holy Trinity Church. The red brick Stratford Memo rial Theater receives 1,000,000 ticket requests annually, is forced to turn down four out of five. The lucky ducat holders this year will pay $500,000 to sit on three sides...